DOUBLE WORLD CHAMPION Craig Breen has been voted WRC World Rally Driver of the Year.
Waterford’s Breen, 22, topped a public poll carried out on WRC.com with 39% of the vote, pipping Norway’s Mads Ostberg who finished second with 38%.
Sebastien Loeb, who clinched his ninth World Rally title in 2012, came third with 8%.
The award rounds off a turbulent season for Breen who cliniched the Super 2000 World Rally Championship with a win at the Rally de Espana two weeks ago.
In June, Breen’s co-driver and best friend Gareth Roberts was killed when the two were involved in a crash at the Targa Florio rally in Sicily.
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